From first message to signed agreement

Five stages, one record

You can run this by hand. You can also hand a stage to the assistant. The record does not change shape either way.

• Chat with the counterparty — Open a room, invite the other side, attach the files and context the deal actually needs. The thread is the source of truth for what the parties meant — not a pile of forwards.
• Draft the agreement — Compose from the chat, from a template, or let the assistant draft from your approved library. Parties, dates and schedules come out of the thread instead of being re-typed into a blank page.
• Negotiate clause by clause — A negotiation is attached to the clause, not emailed as a marked-up attachment. Both sides' proposals, the reasoning and the decision live on the text they concern. The assistant can take the turns you have mandated.
• Stop where a person has to — Clause gates, spend caps and a human review queue are part of the path, not a sidecast. Anything the mandate forbids, the assistant will not do — it queues it.
• Sign in the same room — The signed copy is a version of the document you already have, with a tamper-evident history. Counterparties do not need a paid seat to sign, and nobody exports to a second product to finish.

The sequence does not change

Handing a stage to the assistant is a staffing decision, not a different product. The room, the document and the audit trail are the same.

• You run every stage: You draft, you redline, you chase reviewers, you send for signature
• You run every stage: The assistant is available in the composer for a clause or a summary when you ask
• You run every stage: The record is still one room — you are simply the one filling it
• The assistant runs the stages you mandate: A mandate names the playbook, the walk-aways and the gates
• The assistant runs the stages you mandate: The assistant drafts, takes negotiation turns and routes review
• The assistant runs the stages you mandate: You see every action attributed, and you can kill the run

Questions about the flow

• Do counterparties need a Paqt account? They need to be in the room. They do not need a paid seat to negotiate or to sign. Internal reviewers brought in for one clause do not need their own plan either.
• Can I skip a stage? Yes. A signature on a document you already have, a negotiation on a draft someone else wrote, a room that is only a chat until a file appears — the stages are ordered, not mandatory. The ones you use still share the record.
• Where does the AI assistant enter this? At any stage you have mandated. The nine-stage run on the AI assistant page is this sequence with the assistant driving; this page is the same sequence with the human still in the chair. Both write to the same room.
• Is this different from the three steps on the splash page? No. Chat, create the document, negotiate and sign is the same flow. This page names the review gate and the assistant because those are the two questions the three-step band gets asked next.